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velamento labial

English translation: lip competence


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Portuguese term or phrase:velamento labial
English translation:lip competence
Entered by: Janisa Antoniazzi
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Medical - Medical: Dentistry
Portuguese term or phrase: velamento labial
A esse respeito, Neiva & Leone41 compararam o padrão de sucção de recém-nascidos pré-termo e observaram que ele evolui com a idade gestacional, tendo, a estimulação da sucção (dedo enluvado ou chupeta), aumentado a probabilidade de ocorrência de velamento labial, ritmo, acanolamento da língua, peristaltismo e coordenação da sucção-deglutição-respiração, mostrando-se o dedo enluvado mais eficaz do que a chupeta.
Janisa Antoniazzi
Brazil
Local time: 05:26
lip competence
Explanation:
That should be "vedamento labial". Essential for natural nasal breathing, and sometimes considered a developmental milestone.

Lip closure at rest, which is referred to as lip competence, is essential for normal swallowing and speech, preservation of the periodontal structures...
http://books.google.com.br/books?id=fbYWIpcPSGAC&pg=PA138

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...a probabilidade de ocorrência de vedamento labial, ritmo, acanolamento, peristaltismo e coordenação sucção-deglutição-respiração...
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104...

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Note added at 13 mins (2009-11-06 02:00:47 GMT)
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Also, "lip sealing" (less precise).
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fvasconcellos
Brazil
Local time: 05:26
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lip competence


Explanation:
That should be "vedamento labial". Essential for natural nasal breathing, and sometimes considered a developmental milestone.

Lip closure at rest, which is referred to as lip competence, is essential for normal swallowing and speech, preservation of the periodontal structures...
http://books.google.com.br/books?id=fbYWIpcPSGAC&pg=PA138

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Note added at 10 mins (2009-11-06 01:57:42 GMT)
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...a probabilidade de ocorrência de vedamento labial, ritmo, acanolamento, peristaltismo e coordenação sucção-deglutição-respiração...
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104...

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Note added at 13 mins (2009-11-06 02:00:47 GMT)
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Also, "lip sealing" (less precise).

fvasconcellos
Brazil
Local time: 05:26
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